Game



Rf E. DETTE Sept 1. 1925.

GAME

Filed Feb. 26, 1925 mvzzvron M01115. 5am. W12? M6 may Patented Sept. 11925,

Toiwllwhqm itmay concern; r

,Be it known that L'ROBEB'I 13,; D residing 'at Knoxville, in theeeunt'yof A j; gheny and State of Pennsylvania; a eit-izen of the Unit-edStates, 'l't'ztvfe' invented Q11 disco've 'ed eert-aiil new ia'ndgnseful, Imprflye: nle'nts in Games; of which impm'vementsthefollowing ista 'specifieation. u

it My i iven't-ioii' is found 'f a; game, this game in v epe'eiifi'ecen'nnereiajl em'hegli; ment is illustrated iii the aceompai'iyin'gdrawings. i

'FigfI is wvievv ofqthe bGa dZ- -Hndpi M in" 'perspeetive; Figs. II Iand: IDI- age Views to; Ia -I'g'er scale, in p l ai'n and in endelev'aflgim of Time of the pices Ofenechraeter; Fig. IV is if 'VIE'W, tothe settleoflFig, IIjamd III, of at piece of ii-netherehzirzfiotenehqwnin side elevxtien and shown inuengagement with a; piece "fthe'c1-1afaeter shew-n iIlztFigs'. II and III. This ilzpst-mentiehedpicfi is in Fig: IV shoWI'l in medial and vertical sect-16h. V: is a.view' in transjve'rse secti'en thro'ug'hthe pieeeqs'hoii n inidegelevati'on in'Fifg. IV, and this pieee is-;ij11;'..Eig. V 'eho'wnin' two 'jztlternzttezfolrms, Eigl VlI IHUSEPELIZBSEU n'ldifieatien ofthe mark' piece, end: eoinpaireeto \Figt:III. ,i l I v The game as hereembOdiecT ine11'1de ;,ja, bozirdges we'll asdpieees o'f twin: ohvrzrciiers. The. 'piece 'sethemse'lvee embody", the invn-tien in its:essence; and; given those; jth-eugame may he played ripen suehisur-face'as fortuitous-1y \fiersn Preferably, {howe-ver, angd partieulaily 61 cbmmepeiel purp0ses,, a b oa rd is provided; a beard sushi isisgehb'wn at 1, Fig. I. I do not mean to limit myself to p zirti'eula rcliiiierisioim-gfo r the dimensi'eris' may he; widelyvariedi but; in;the particular" embodiment of the? infvention Whieh'I have made," the?bdarctcis eighteeh ineh'es' lmig ain'chsix inches Wide-:1 Alt ohe ehdthe. boafrd is"- pi'ovideduwifih" ziir-balckest 2; suitably'bl'a'eed by"blotrke "It; will; e under stoed' tw n the ensuing fle'scripti qn thatthe game may be playelcl'onf acsuit-able stirfce, without any hmlfistbp'at; all: but, preferably, :i-nd p articularly: in" A; coinnlmieialembofliineiit; the horrdanx ill' be fipl'owidd wi h uch a vke pi *Qidinayth bd k h nzth im li. pic lli s mpmithe Us,

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fabiic of uifieient rigidity, such as bjgulfilid ploth; 1lFheemeiikipieeseare an i ch' liongkmn inch and alto-w the keeiiii eighth boundfrom the back-stop, as presently will be explained. The open end of thehorseshoe is half an inch across, inside measure, and the lips, whoseshape is best shown in Fig. III, taper from the lower face of the bodyportion to points in approximately the plane of the upper surface. Theparticular shape of the mark piece may be modified, as indicated in Fig.VI, to the end that it may be'in playing position, either side-up.

The number of mark pieces is a matter of secondary consideration, but inthis. particular embodiment of the game four are provided. and they fiteasily in alignment against the back-stop 2,.as shown in Fig. I, fromwhich position any one may easily be removed in the progress of thegame. 1

In playing, them-ark pieces are set in-substantially the position shownin Fig. I, side by side, backed against back-stop 2, their open endsdirected toward the opposite end of the board, and their lips taperingupward. A missile piece is placed at the opposite end of the board. insubstantially the position shown in Fig. I. The player presses with hisfinger upon missile piece 4 and by increasing the pressure and at thesame time shifting to rearward from the vertical diameter the point ofconcentration of stress, he presently causes themissile piece toshootfrom beneath his finger forward, in the direction indicated by the arrowa. At the same time he imparts tothe missile piece retrograde rotation,in the direction indicated by the arrow 6. In making this shot, theplayer aims the missile piece, that it may enter between thelips of amark piece. The missile piece at, advancing, skims the surface of theboard. Perhaps, if the pressure has been too great, or not skillfullyapplied, the piece hops some- What, or bounds along. The advancingmissile piece may or may not reach the backstop; if it doesit willrebound; butwhether it reaches the back-stop or no, if it has beenproperly shot, it will continue its retrograde rotation after itsadvance inthe direction indicated by arrow a has ceased. It then willroll back toward the end of the table from which it was impelled. If themissile piece has been properly directed, and has efore retrogressionentered between the of a mark piece, it will roll back to- "ward thestarting point,-carrying a mark lips piece, in the position shown inFig. IV. The mark piece is light, and" the missilepiece ofheaviermaterial'easily drags it along. 7 y 7 The game is achieved in sopicking up one byone the mark pieces and removing them fro-m theirinitial position. And an element of skill, acquired with not too greatdifficulty, is involved in aiming the missile pieces and in soshooting-them that they shallmo-ve with proper momentum in both of theirtwo simultaneously imposed motions,advance in the direction a, androtation in the direction I).

I have described the missile piece4 as a bone ring, rectangular in crosssection. Manifestly the cross-sectional shape may be minutely varied,and in this respect suited to the particular material employed, and inFig. V I show in cross-section two rings: one, the ring 4 alreadydescribed; the other the ring. 45, which in cross-section is obtuselytriangular. Comparison of this crosssection with the showing of Fig. IIIwill show that the ring iswell adapted to enter between the lips of themark piece, and that, given an inter-lip space of that particular shape,the ring 4* of Fig. V is of a shape to afford maximum cross-section, andyet toenter the space freely.

I have described the mark pieces as being made of cork; alternatively,they may be made of felt, or of another light material. I have describedthe mark pieces as being formed with bodies of relatively rigid materialand lips of relatively flexible and elastic ,material'. That is mypreferred structure. But manifestly the resilience necessary to allowthe entrance of the missile ring between the lips of the mark piece maybe found in the body of the mark piece itself. The lips'may berelatively inflexible, and, under the impact of the missile piece thearms of the horseshoe may spring apart, to allow entrance of the missilepiece between the lips and into interlinked engagement with themarkpiece.

It should be said of the horseshoe shape of the mark piece that when thepiece is positioned, as it here is shown to be, against a back-stop, thearms of the horseshoe are so positioned as best to resist the impact ofan on-coming missile piece, and to insure concentration of the meetingforces in the bending of the lips 6.

. -As already Ihave intimated, proportions may be varied, minute shapemay be altered, the number of pieces of the several sorts is not anessential matter, and board and backstop may be improvised, and theback-stop may even be dispensed with. The surface of play willnecessarily be a smooth surface.

I claim as my invention:

1. A game including a missile piece in the form of an annulus and anelastic mark piece in the form of an incomplete loop. 2. A gameincluding a missile piece in the form of an annulus and an elastic markpiece in the form of an incomplete loop, the approaching ends of theincomplete loop presenting to an advancing missile piece a re-entrantangle.

3. A game including a missile piece in the form of an annulus and a markpiece in the form of a broken ring, with flexible elastielips guardingthe break,

4. A game including a missile piece in 5. A game including a board Withabackthe form of an annulus of elastic material, stop, a plurality ofelastic mark pieces of and a mark piece in the form of a horsebrokenloop form, and a missile piece of an- 10 shoe of relatively rigidmaterial with lips of nular form.

= relatively flexible and elastic material con- In testimony whereof Ihave hereunto set verging from the ends of the horseshoe my hand.

across the space between the ends. ROBERT E. BETTE.

